Quotes About Open-mindedness

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn't understand, and that it comes from a level of ignorance, or from socialised brainwashing, or religious ideas.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

Sometimes I can be a little ignorant.

Ignore the ignorant.

I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.

People want to label people and that's all they want to do. They don't want to get to know them, they don't want to understand the story, in-depth.

I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.

It's important for people to, instead of automatically assuming everything the opposite side says is incorrect, you have to at least listen and see why someone might feel a certain way.

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

I've been to India, and I never thought I'd go there.

A patriot will admit there may be honest men, and that honest men may differ.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

If you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

We only understand what we are prepared to understand

Esteem for those who travel, disdain for those who stay at home.